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Honor in the Eyes of the Lord


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“Honor in the Eyes of the Lord”
 Isa 49:1-7 & I Cor. 1:1-9
 
 
The season of Epiphany continues to reveal Christ to us. Epiphany has been a part of the church calendar for centuries. Each year there is an intersection of the Sanctity of Life Sunday, a recent focus within church history, and Epiphany. There is a connection between these two things that is often overlooked. Sanctity of human life is narrowly viewed as addressing abortion. While that is true, it encompasses so much more! It is increasing the awareness of the value of human life because we are made in the image of God. Epiphany is the manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles for the same reason, they are made in the image of God. 
Both the sanctity of life and Epiphany are calling our attention to the same issue, the value of the Imago Dei. 
Christ is the one who lifts the gloom, enlarges the nation, increases joy, shatters yokes and bars of oppression. (Isa 9) He does it through his cross. The message of the cross is the message of how God values the lives of those made in his image. It is where he trades the life of his Son for the lives of all of us who believe. So in a similar way that abortion is the trading of a life for a life, so the message of the cross is a trading of a life for life, but with a very different meaning and outcome. 
In an abortion, the right to life of the one is denied so that the right to life of another might “thrive”. The message of the cross is the right to life of the One is voluntarily given up so that the lives of many will thrive. In this way the Imago Dei is honored and God is glorified.
For this end Christians are to always work, regardless of political leanings. Party identity is submitted to identity in Christ. (I Cor. 1) 
This sermon will make the case for the sanctity of life as seen through the manifestation of Christ in the message of the cross. 
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